Oddbean new post about login | logout Confirmed works. Don't be sleeping on Ditto and the implications. Small groups of people interacting locally (forming nodes) inside of the larger nostr protocol (network). I really need to pick up a network theory book because something is happening and I don't seem to have the vocabulary to adequately describe the feelings I'm getting here. Any suggestions? nostr:note1ryzyh5gs5kzlvzjywrnernr78hmat9yc5y7cts6mr7p6a9th03msc3y79a
> Don't be sleeping on Ditto and the implications. Small groups of people interacting locally (forming nodes) inside of the larger nostr protocol (network). To be fair that's really similar to the #Fediverse, right? The main benefits I see of #Nostr are account portability and increased censorship resistance.
Account portability is the main thing. At least for me it is. There are aspects of Fedi that are the same but its the freedom of portability that's the biggest feature. The tie-ins between Fedi and nostr are happening and it's going to create something that's impossible to describe but I suspect it replaces almost 80% of the web within 10 years.
After 4.5 decades of civil disobedience activism, libertarian networking, and then the Wild World of Bitcoin which took me on a 4 year total off grid (zero bank access) adventure around the US, I promise you that your network of trust (Yes, I said "trust") will be what enables you to thrive and in some cases survive.
Trust will always be a thing between people. Trust minimization is the goal of money (what money should strive for).
Now we can love each other again. ❤️ nostr:note17tgk5tcj70tdxnchxk6r58j2p8pgrk04z9zd0zx6x48y3jpumrpsla2fu3
The most popular voice for Normies in 2014 was Andreas: Bitcoin is trustless. This from a socialist who when given a huge stash of bitcoin asked, "How am I supposed to pay the taxes on this?". Trustless is not the same as permissionless. Evangelists should focus on that as almost nobody understands trust minimization as a component of economic game theory.
That's pretty close to the right terms. Small community groups could be a local node or a LAN. The rest of nostr is your WAN (wide area network). or something.
I think I'm trying to describe what falls out of that kind of synergy and failing miserably trying to understand for myself what I'm seeing occur.
Check out the original Parallel Polis concept. A network of local nodes in diverse aspects of life and civic society routing around the state/censorship/regulations. I've been looking for a while for a good contemporary overview, and finally found a pretty solid one here: https://www.themoralimagination.com/p/ep-49-flagg-taylor-phd-the-parallel-066 Maybe just add to it little more explicit localism focus. It's kinda just implicit in the original concept.